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    The father of the index fund says it’s probably only a matter of time before they own half of all U.S. stocks; ‘I do not believe that such concentration would serve the national interest’ Investing

    November 30, 2018

    The father of the index fund says it’s probably only a matter of time before they own half of all U.S. stocks; ‘I do not believe that such concentration would serve the national interest’ Investing

    The father of the index fund says it’s probably only a matter of time before they own half of all U.S. stocks; ‘I do not believe that such concentration would serve the national interest’

    Posted: 29 Nov 2018 01:50 PM PST

    I Read The News So You Don't Have To - Market News (November 29, 2018)

    Posted: 29 Nov 2018 04:37 AM PST

    UNITED STATES

    • The chairman of the Federal Reserve said its benchmark interest rate was approaching the "neutral" level that neither causes growth to accelerate nor to slow down
      • Will the central bank relax its rate-increases sooner than expected?
    • Crude oil inventories rose for the 10th straight week and futures fell following the Fed's statements
    • Senators from both parties voted together to consider cutting off their country's military support for the Saudi-backed war in Yemen
    • The Richmond Fed Manufacturing Current Average Wage hit its highest level since the recession
      • and hiring activity is now slowing along with expected shipments and new orders

    OTHER

    • Paul Polman is stepping down as Unilever's chief executive
    • The British government released its official forecast on the cost of Brexit
      • Under the current proposed exit suggestion, GDP will drop 3.9% lower —9.3% if there is no agreement.

    CHINA

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    NASA announced that nine US companies would bid on contracts to develop technologies for taking payloads to the moon.

    Posted: 29 Nov 2018 08:21 PM PST

    NASA just announced that nine US companies are eligible to bid on $2.6 billion worth of contracts over the next 10 years to deliver services to the moon.

    From NASA's twitter:

    We're returning to the Moon, to stay, and nine American companies will work on developing technologies to get there. They'll bid on contracts to deliver our science and technology payloads, paving the way to send humans back to the Moon and on to Mars

    It's a big news day for us! At 2pm ET, we're announcing new Moon partnerships with American companies. The technology we used to first explore the Moon was groundbreaking for its time. Find out what's next to explore the Moon:

    NASA revealed the private companies it's partnering with to return to the Moon:

    Astrobotic Technology

    Deep Space Systems

    Draper

    Firefly Aerospace

    Intuitive Machines

    Lockheed Martin

    Masten Space Systems

    Moon Express

    Orbit Beyond

    Which of these companies would you consider holding long-term based on this news?

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    China's Becoming So Desperate for Pork That It's Buying American - Bloomberg Markets

    Posted: 29 Nov 2018 10:04 AM PST

    Deutsche Bank Raided by Police in Money-Laundering Probe

    Posted: 29 Nov 2018 05:16 AM PST

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-29/deutsche-bank-headquarters-searched-in-money-laundering-probe?srnd=premium

    The timing of the raid inflicts more pain on Deutsche Bank after a series of setbacks and repeated failures in keeping misconduct in check have pushed the shares to all-time lows. Investor worries have mounted over its role as a correspondent bank in the multi-billion-dollar money-laundering scandal at Danske, and Germany's markets regulator has taken the unprecedented step of appointing a monitor to oversee the firm's efforts to improve money-laundering and terrorism-financing controls.

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    How to plan on global warming's impact on my investments?

    Posted: 29 Nov 2018 06:59 PM PST

    First, I don't want to debate global warming. To me the science is clear that it's happening, but I know not everyone is in that camp.

    Assuming global warming is happening then GOP will go down, there may be fewer humans, dollars, and consumption. In fact, the potential financial impacts have be well-noted in a wide variety of peer-reviewed articles. How do I plan against that? We speak a lot about the market always goes up, rebounds, but that's based on historical data. With unprecedented and untested new variables in the market I feel like looking out 10-30 years (maybe sooner?) it will be MUCH more unpredictable and the "old rules" won't/don't apply. We could say the same about general nationalist trends and global instability. I'm not trying to be an alarmist, I'm just thinking through different scenarios. How is everyone thinking through this?

    There's a certain part of me that's like it won't matter at that point, the world will be over, but THAT is alarmist.:)

    Edit: corrected a misstated point about evidence.

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    This I believe will help new investors and remind veterans who practice value investing

    Posted: 29 Nov 2018 10:02 PM PST

    Basic guide for investing in stocks

    by walter schloss

    :) something to ponder while thinking about value investing. try to find a way to disagree with it and compare with your philosophy.

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    Bogle: "If historical trends continue, a handful of giant institutional investors will one day hold voting control of virtually every large U.S. corporation."

    Posted: 29 Nov 2018 09:54 PM PST

    Interesting read on just how popular and powerful index funds have become:

    https://www.wsj.com/articles/bogle-sounds-a-warning-on-index-funds-1543504551

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    Potential tax loss harvesters: gentle reminder to re-examine any relevant automatic investments.

    Posted: 29 Nov 2018 11:23 AM PST

    Now that we're approaching 31 days before the last trading day of 2018, it's a good time to examine and/or temporarily pause/modify any automated investments to avoid triggering the wash sale rule.

    If you aren't familiar with TLH, it's (at a high level) the practice of selling losing investments as a way of effectively decreasing your net taxable 2018 income come next April. The wash sale rule, among other things, disallows harvesting of losses if you bought a substantially similar investment within 30 days of the sale (in either direction). Thus, if at the end of this year you want to sell some lots that were purchased automatically, you would want to ensure no other automated purchases occur within 30 days of December 31.

    Here's a gentle introduction to help you out (targeted mostly at Vanguard, but applicable to others, too): https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=172568

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    Very hands-off investor looking into REITs. Any thoughts, suggestions, advice?

    Posted: 29 Nov 2018 09:01 PM PST

    401k and Roth IRA are getting maxed out each year. I also hold a little bit of BRK.B (because I look up to Mr. Buffett a great deal), VTIAX, and VTSAX. Thinking about diversifying into Real Estate and, given my hand-off investing style, REITs seem like the correct route to take.

    Any suggestions for a noob trying to get into REITs? Any firms to stay away from? Any sectors (storage, retirement homes, etc.) that are worth investigating and/or staying away from?

    Thanks!

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    Favorite / Top dividend stocks?

    Posted: 29 Nov 2018 04:40 PM PST

    Every year I max out my Roth IRA and buy an individual stock. Usually in a different industry to diversify.

    This go around I am looking at adding a high yielding dividend stock. My top choice right now is AT&T. Thoughts?

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    Any followup on people who lost everything?

    Posted: 29 Nov 2018 06:47 PM PST

    I've read about some of these stories. Particularly brutal are the retirees who one day have nothing left. (Yes, you can blame them, lots of people like to, but investing can be crazy. Anyone can go wrong. And... people at that age may develop some impairments they haven't yet realized.)

    I'm just wondering if anyone knows what happened to some of these people. There are stories of younger people using it as inspirational stories and such, but what about the guy who's 73 and lost everything. I've read about that happening, but I'd be curious what came after.

    (No, it hasn't happened to me, although I made some outrageously stupid moves after a brokerage screw-up wiped out months of profit in a day, and thought, Well, if do X, maybe I can make it all back in shot... Oh... or maybe Y... or Z... STOP!)

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    Is there a source where I can get the last few years of a companies revenue and profit margin?

    Posted: 30 Nov 2018 02:12 AM PST

    Preferably a filter, but any aggregation would be appreciated.

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    What are the chances of bitcoin making a comeback?

    Posted: 29 Nov 2018 02:29 PM PST

    AT&T to start netflix competitor - cutting debt by 20 billion and selling Hulu assets

    Posted: 29 Nov 2018 05:59 PM PST

    What do you guys think? market is reacting positively AH. personally I have a large long call position with underlying shares. $32 Calls expire in February, feeling confident.

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    What more valuable in monetary terms - Amazon or The Amazon?

    Posted: 30 Nov 2018 01:07 AM PST

    Buy Walmart, Target as online sales growth starts to outpace Amazon's, Bank of America says

    Posted: 29 Nov 2018 08:29 AM PST

    question about lehman brothers / 2008 events

    Posted: 30 Nov 2018 12:37 AM PST

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3sm-XGVca3c

    okay sooo

    just wondering. early in the video it says tons of investors lost their money due to lehman brothers collapsing

    what im wondering is

    was lehman brothers something like say, shwab or fidelity is today, and did tons of people have money in stock portfolios in lehman accounts and it was all destroyed when lehman brothers collapsed?

    this sounds scary to me. does this mean shwab could "collapse" and my entire portfolio vanishes if theres a surprise bankrupcy?

    or. is the money investors lost seen as the lehman brothers stock price dropping, but not actual accounts disappearing ?

    im thinking its probably not the case that lehman brothers was a thing like shwab where people kept their stock accounts there... if it was... and stock accounts can just vaporize if your stock company goes under... then thats pretty scary

    im thinking... probably when people say investors lost money... they mean people who had shares of lehman brothers in their accounts lost tons of money?

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    Opinion on Brookfield stocks?

    Posted: 29 Nov 2018 04:46 PM PST

    Opinions on Brookfield stocks? BAM, BEP, BIP, BPY, BPR are all the different stocks from Brookfield. I'm wondering what it means when a company has that many stocks for one company. Does this mean if the company is doing good all of these stocks will do good, and if company is doing bad all these stocks will do bad?

    Also I'd love to hear general opinions about these stock, all of them besides BAM pay decent dividends.

    Please share any information about pros and cons and anything else because I'm not sure if I should invest or not in any of these stocks

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    looking for non market maker futures broker to trade mainly oil, who is the best broker for low investments/low turnover seasonal opportunist?

    Posted: 30 Nov 2018 12:10 AM PST

    High Yield Savings vs Bonds vs Bond ETFs

    Posted: 29 Nov 2018 03:25 PM PST

    Hey y'all, first time posting here. I've been doing a lot of reading and the general recommendation for the typical stock/bond investment strategy I've seen for someone my age (26 years old) is to have 70-75% of my portfolio in stocks and 25-30% of my portfolio in bonds. To be clear, I'd like to stick to this % to reduce investment value volatility and hedge against bear markets or market corrections. However, I'd also like to "protect" myself from rising interest rates.

    ​

    Initially, I was just going to put the 30% into bond ETF indexes (15% in TLT (20+ year treasury bond index) and 15% IEF (7-10 year treasury bond index)). I then thought, given the rising interest rates, I should do 20-25% in IEF and 5-10% in TLT since rising interest rates affect the value of long-term bonds greater than short-term bonds.

    ​

    The next thought was if my bond investments are supposed to be the "safe" part of my portfolio with significantly smaller gains but preservation of capital rather than a source of growth during bear markets or corrections, why not just put the 25-30% of my portfolio into 1-year treasury bonds? No risk of 1-year treasury bond value going down due to rising interest rates (like there would be with the bond ETFs) and current 1-year treasury yield is at 2.7% and it's guaranteed. If interest rates continue to go up, I'd just keep buying 1-year treasury bonds. If they start to go down, I'd have to reevaluate.

    ​

    And then finally, I thought, why not just put the 25-30% into a high yield savings account? There are a couple out there with 2.0% yield. So, similar returns to the 1-year treasury bonds but with full liquidity and still guaranteed. Also, high yield savings account yields tend to go up with rising interest rates.

    ​

    The high yield savings account is my favorite option at the moment, but I'm curious what y'all here have to say.

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    TLDR: What's better for the portion of my investment portfolio that's supposed to be safe given present-day circumstances (highest ever market numbers and rising interest rates): high yield savings account, bond ETFs, or 1-year treasury bonds. And why?

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    Cash-Strapped Millennials Are Turning to Installment Plans to Pay for T-Shirts and Jeans

    Posted: 29 Nov 2018 05:27 AM PST

    https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-29/lending-apps-are-selling-installment-plans-to-cash-strapped-mille?srnd=premium

    Installment plans have helped shoppers afford large purchases since the late 19th century and are still available for pricey items like cars and smartphones. But to delay payment for a T-shirt and a couple pairs of jeans, you needed a credit card. Now several fintech startups are putting smaller purchases on installment, too. Max Levchin Source: Affirm

    Earlier this year, Australia's Afterpay began offering installment plans in the U.S., joining Affirm, a San Francisco startup launched by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin. Square announced its own installments plan in October; so did Swedish payments company Klarna, which has teamed up with H&M to offer services in 14 markets it didn't name.

    Consumers apply online or via app and learn whether they've been approved in seconds. They click a button at checkout on the websites of participating retailers if they want to pay by installment. Cotton On, which sells inexpensive apparel, began offering U.S. installments through Afterpay in August. E-commerce chief Brendan Sweeney says 20 percent of buyers are already using the feature, which breaks up bills into four equal parts spread over six weeks and charges no interest.

    Afterpay Touch Group Ltd. caught on quickly with Australian millennials, many of whom abandoned credit cards after the 2008 recession. Founder Nick Molnar was a teenager when the crisis hit and understood intuitively that his contemporaries would approach credit differently from their forebears.

    The company charges no interest, instead collecting a fee of as much as 6 percent of a sale from the retailer. Afterpay works with 20,000 merchants globally—including 1,000 now online in the U.S. where the company has signed up Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie and Free People.

    Afterpay is betting American millennials will be just as keen on its service as their Australian counterparts. The company says 65 percent of the U.S. cohort don't have a credit card, are 30 on average and are intrigued by using installments to pay for merchandise. Leslie Parrish, a senior analyst at researcher Aite Group, says the simplicity of installments is at the heart of the appeal. "You know precisely when you'll pay off that loan," she says. "That gives you more discipline."

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    British American Tobacco?

    Posted: 29 Nov 2018 05:13 PM PST

    So I've been looking at value stocks, and one big opportunity I've seen is British American Tobacco (BTI). Their rev and earnings growth has been amazing, they have a PE of 2 as well as a 7% div yield and a 120% net profit margin. Interestingly, I did a DCF calculation using gurufocus and found that their DCF is $660 compared to their share price of $35 which I found puzzling. However, over the last year, their shares have tumbled roughly 50%. Why is that happening? I've been trying to look but haven't found anything.

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    Before Investing in any penny stocks every investor follow this little rules then invest!

    Posted: 30 Nov 2018 12:25 AM PST

    I was just going through blogs and gone through many things

    I think this should be basic 10 Steps to follow in penny stock investment

    1. Research the Company: One of the best things to do before investing in penny stocks Singapore is to research the company.
    2. Underlying Business: While trading Singapore penny stocks one of the things that you need to look out is the underlying business of the company.
    3. Financials: For purchasing good penny stocks it is important to take a close look at the financial documents of the company.
    4. Understanding the patterns
    5. Catalyst Events: Catalyst events are the events or releases that affect the prices of penny stocks. Penny Stocks are heavily affected by such catalyst events. For example: if a company announces the launch of a new product then potentially this announcement could impact the value of the stock. So traders are expected to scout for such catalyst events and make the most by investing in such penny stocks.

    6.Trading Time

    7.Liquidity Ratio Importance of Value

    1. Coping with the Volatility

    2. Financial condition

    10.Coping with volatility

    Furthermore go through this blog from where I learned

    Thanks

    https://www.mmfsolutions.sg/blog/how-find-good-penny-stocks-for-investment-singapore/

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